
The Obama administration is expected to release 17 detainees as early as next week, including “al Qaeda followers” who have been cleared for release from the Guantánamo Bay prison by a board established by the president.
by Edwin Mora5 Jan 2016, 7:32 AM PST0

Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) stated that President Obama “has already intimated that he is looking for ways” to work around the law to close down Guantanamo Bay or transfer individuals to the US, adding, “the president consistently uses that lull”
by Ian Hanchett26 Dec 2015, 10:18 AM PST0

The Obama administration, continuing its goal of closing the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, is readying the “transfer” of 17 “lower-level detainees” from the country, officials told The New York Times.
by Jordan Schachtel18 Dec 2015, 8:05 AM PST0

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, CUBA— It’s the worst kept secret at Guantanamo Bay: The detainees, in all likelihood, much prefer the detention center here to the conditions faced at a federal facility.
by Jordan Schachtel14 Dec 2015, 5:21 PM PST0

On Wednesday, the White House rejected the Pentagon’s plan for an alternative to the Guantánamo Bay military facility on mainland U.S. soil because it could cost $600 million to implement and was deemed too expensive.
by John Hayward2 Dec 2015, 6:41 PM PST0

The Senate-passed, $607 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would, among its other provisions, ban the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to mainland American prisons. This would effectively checkmate President Obama’s plans to close the Guantanamo detention facility.
by John Hayward11 Nov 2015, 1:39 PM PST0

The Pentagon is scheduled to release its list of alternative facilities for holding former Guantánamo Bay prisoners after President Obama closes the facility, over the objections of Congress and a hefty majority of the American people.
by John Hayward11 Nov 2015, 6:50 AM PST0

With only one year left in President Obama’s tenure, the White House continues to hint at the possibility that the President may use his executive powers to unilaterally shut down Guantánamo Bay prison without the consent of Congress.
by Jordan Schachtel6 Nov 2015, 12:29 PM PST0

Among the most recent transferred detainees from Guantanamo Bay was 45-year-old Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz, sent home to Mauritania after 13 years in U.S. custody.
by John Hayward30 Oct 2015, 9:51 AM PST0

Obama’s strong stand on Gitmo underscores two vital points. First, President Obama does not fear defunding America’s national security. Second, Obama does not fear Republicans in Congress.
by Ben Shapiro7 Oct 2015, 11:26 AM PST0

As the Associated Press notes, the defense policy bill “is one of the few bipartisan measures in Congress that has readily become law for more than a half-century,” but President Obama is threatening to veto this one, with Senate Democrats standing behind him.
by John Hayward7 Oct 2015, 9:14 AM PST0

Thursday afternoon in Columbia, South Carolina, former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) joined Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) for a “Presidential Town Hall” series that Scott is hosting with the Republican presidential candidates.
by Sarah Rumpf27 Aug 2015, 11:09 PM PST0

The Obama administration, while the Senate debates halting transfers out of the Guantanamo Bay detention center and keeping the prison operable indefinitely, is planning to free up to 10 detainees, possibly in June, Defense One has learned.
by Edwin Mora5 Jun 2015, 8:15 AM PST0

Lloyd Levin and Michael Bonner, principal advisors behind the Oscar-nominated Paul Greengrass-directed films United 93 and Green Zone, have optioned film rights of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s memoir.
by Kelli Serio3 Jun 2015, 11:14 AM PST0

Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight would be more suited to await trial in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where detainees have better living conditions, his attorney claimed Thursday.
by Kipp Jones4 Apr 2015, 11:59 AM PST0

The nation of Uruguay is struggling to properly integrate the six former Guantánamo Bay prisoners they accepted from the United States into society. Two of the men were forced into hotel housing after a heated “political and religious dispute,” while a third has traveled to Argentina to demand that the Southern Cone nation take in more prisoners from Gitmo.
by Frances Martel13 Feb 2015, 9:06 AM PST0

ARLINGTON, VA — Representatives for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner argued before Obama’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) on Tuesday that the al-Qaeda linked detainee should be reunited with his family in Yemen where the U.S.-backed government collapsed last week.
by Edwin Mora27 Jan 2015, 4:15 PM PST0

WASHINGTON — Obama’s Periodic Review Board (PRB) held a hearing on whether an experienced bomb maker linked to al Qaeda should remain in custody at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
by Edwin Mora23 Jan 2015, 8:00 AM PST0

Friday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” in speaking about President Barack Obama’s attempts to clear terrorists out of Guantanamo Bay, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said, “I don’t understand the White House position at all, and I think neither does
by Pam Key16 Jan 2015, 9:08 AM PST0

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, coming a step closer to reaching its goal of shutting down the Guantanamo Bay prison, has released five Yemenis from the detention center.
by Edwin Mora15 Jan 2015, 1:33 PM PST0

According to the Obama administration, the five Guantanamo terrorists they traded for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl are “no longer a threat to U.S. national security.” That’s what former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel concluded when he signed the document setting
by Tom Fitton6 Jan 2015, 10:42 AM PST0

President Barack Obama said on Sunday he is eager to redouble his efforts to release the remaining 131 suspected terrorist inmates at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility so he can close Gitmo’s doors forever. “I’m going to be doing everything I
by Wynton Hall21 Dec 2014, 8:45 AM PST0

A former Guantánamo prisoner had been using the cafeteria of Madrid’s largest mosque to recruit Islamist extremists to join the Islamic State in waging jihad in the Middle East, an investigation following his June arrest has revealed. Spanish law enforcement
by Frances Martel13 Dec 2014, 12:07 PM PST0

Zacarias Moussaoui, also known as the “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked a South Florida federal judge Wednesday for a transfer to the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Associated Press reported. Moussaoui is serving a life sentence
by Kerry Picket10 Dec 2014, 6:55 AM PST0

In the wake of Tuesday’s release of the CIA memo detailing Bush-era interrogators’ methods that extracted information from enemy combatants, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Breitbart News the Obama administration is mirandizing terrorists that the U.S. military is capturing on
by Kerry Picket9 Dec 2014, 6:55 AM PST0